RE: [SAtalk] Re: W32.Novarg.A@mm virus

Thanks for all the help guys. I've installed clamav and set it to quietly refuse the Novarg virus (rather than trying to bounce all back to non-existent senders), and it seems to be successfully stomping on the beasty. Thanks again - Regards, Richard -Original Message- From: [

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin on Qmail Relay

Upgrade spamassassin, along with the new rulesets, to the latest version. Turn on Bayesian learning and download the excellent custom rulesets at http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm. You'll be amazed at how much these custom rulesets help. Just place the files in the sam

[SAtalk] W32.Novarg.A@mm virus

body.zip (the most common ones it appears to be using at the moment).   Cheers, Richard  

RE: [SAtalk] Local rules apparently not working

Title: Message That's got it working - about as basic as I thought ;-)   Thanks (or should I say grazie?)   Richard -Original Message-From: Giovanni Carbone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 January 2004 11:24To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Local

[SAtalk] Local rules apparently not working

sing something obvious - but what?   Thanks   Richard The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken o

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam.

Based on the record, to date, it would be the easiest job in the world Kind of like being the safety officer on the Titanic.   RO   >I can not imagine what it would be like to work for an abuse dept. at an internet company and receive hundreds or thousands of complaints about customers >c

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on Gateway server (MX)

I use postfix w/ amavis and spamassassin and it works flawlessly. I placed the SA box at my MX record's IP address and then relay (using postfix) to my primary mail server. The mail server is behind my firewall and uses NAT to send mail out. Actually both boxes are behind the firewall... although

Re: [SAtalk] Which conf file?

Title: [SAtalk] Which conf file? Spamassassin is loaded by amavisd upon startup as long as you have turned on spam filtering in your amavisd.conf file.  It also sounds like you may have a postfix problem that's causing all mail to be rejected as undeliverable. I would take a look at:   http:

RE: [SAtalk] RBL timeouts

thanks -Original Message- From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:09 PM To: 'Richard Humphrey'; 'Spamassassin-List' Subject: RE: [SAtalk] RBL timeouts Just find the testname: http://useast.spamassassin.org/tests.html I

RE: [SAtalk] RBL timeouts

Sorry for my ignorance but what would be the syntax for scoring these to 0 in my local.cf? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Spamassassin-List Subject: Re:

RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL

Hmm, it looks as though this would be the problem: debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? no debug: is DNS available? 0 Now, the next question, how do I go about installing Net::DNS, do I have to use CPAN? Thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL

;blue','bl.blueshore.net.') describe RCVD_IN_MY_BNBL Listed by bl.blueshore.net tflags RCVD_IN_MY_BNBLnet score RCVD_IN_MY_BNBL 5.0 Thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:01 A

RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL

really not sure the cause... Any ideas? Thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:01 AM To: Richard Bewley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL At 12:30 A

RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL

doesn't work. I also tried it without the '2', any more ideas? Thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:47 PM To: Richard Bewley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk]

RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL

Hi, So, do I still need the 'bl', 'bl.blueshore.net'.'? Or, can I just leave that out? Thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 10:47 PM To: Richard Bewley; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

[SAtalk] Adding another RBL

me in the right direction here? Thanks, Richard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http:

RE: [SAtalk] How to whitelist this mailinglist

g lists have greatly outweighed the SPAM complaints (although there are a lot of both). Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David B Funk Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 5:39 AM To: Martin Lyberg Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: [SAtalk] Re: An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum

requires a lot of thought and planning. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth Porter Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Re: An Open Letter to the SA-talk f

RE: [SAtalk] Idea for spamassassin

You mean like having all outbound mail learned as “HAM”?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nichols, William Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 5:30 PM To: SA Mailing list Subject: [SAtalk] Idea for spamassassin   I attended a seminar yesterday

RE: [SAtalk] What level to delete at?

setting up the system, if anyone is interested. Otherwise, I'll see if I can write up a "how-to". Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Bewley Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

RE: [SAtalk] What level to delete at?

was held by postfix is re-injected to the queue, using postsuper -h queueid, and delivered directly to IMail (bypassing spamassassin). If you're interested in my script, contact me off list... Richard -Original Message- From: Matt Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, Novembe

RE: [SAtalk] What level to delete at?

Hello, We get approximately 1 gig of mail per day, and our system catches (yesterday at least) 41,185 spam messages per day. This setup, too, is used as simply a relay to an IMail server running on a Windows machine. Our SPAM queue works independent of the Windows pop3 mailserver. Richard

RE: [SAtalk] What level to delete at?

her nicely, and our users seem to like it :-) Richard -Original Message- From: ian douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:01 PM To: Richard Bewley Subject: RE: [SAtalk] What level to delete at? > I don't delete them either. What happens on our setup, is

RE: [SAtalk] what's up with spamassassin ?!

content scanner in master.cf of postfix. Richard > > forgive me. i am new to this. > > Thanks > > > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Chris Thielen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Spamassassin-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

RE: [SAtalk] What level to delete at?

to their mailbox. This keeps things nice and automatic, which means less work for me :-) Richard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create bet

RE: [SAtalk] Score

Hi, I believe this is an FAQ. But, basically, it rounds that number to one decimal place. So, if your score was really 4.978, it would list 4 stars, be below the 5.0 threshold, but round to 5.0 on the "hits" indicator. Hope that helps, Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[SAtalk] Want to add another dnsbl

blueshore.net tflags RCVD_IN_BNBLnet If so, how would I assign a point value to it? Thanks, Richard --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create

[SAtalk] FW: SpamAssassin with postfix as a gateway

    From: Richard Bewley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 9:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: SpamAssassin with postfix as a gateway   Hi,   I am currently running postfix a gateway for incoming mail, which has a transpor

Re: [SAtalk] Microsoft Outlook and saving spams for learning..

sync the messages, then drag them out to a folder on your filesystem. This will export them into a format that sa-learn can read.   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Bates Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [SAtalk] Microsoft Outlook and saving spams for learning..

Message- From: Richard Bates [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 October 2003 15:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Microsoft Outlook and saving spams for learning.. I have a question about when you save a mail as mailname.msg from  microsoft outlook sa-learn --spam --dir /home/bates

[SAtalk] Microsoft Outlook and saving spams for learning..

name.msg remove the garbled headers? Thanks in advance.. Richard Bates After looking at the mailname.msg files, they appear to look like this.. –œ‡°±·>˛ˇ 
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RE: [SAtalk] SPAM, BLOCK: Death of monkeys.com DNSbl (fwd)

the finger. People are sick to death of advertising. If I had the skills I would write the software myself, but I don't. All I can do is sit on the sidelines for now. Richard Ahlquist -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter P. Benac

[SAtalk] spamd failing

l me how I fix this? As I say, it could be to do with me trying to add DCC to an already working system. DCC has been fully removed, as far as I can tell, but the error still occurs. -- Richard Kirkcaldy Check the network status before emailing http://192.168.0.11:1/status ---

RE: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT

on it and when they come off. A distributed reporting into the list file may work. In order to do lookups in the list require that folks peer sharing at least 2-5 outbound connects? All I can hope is a developer who know what they are doing finds some merit in a idea like this. Richard

[SAtalk] "This mail is probably spam." (-105 points)

think that it would only attach the above text only if it was likely that the email was spam. Thanks for listening, Dick -- Richard M. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice

[SAtalk] Problem integrating with Razor: can't locate new in Razor2::Client::Agent ?

Hey all! I've just installer Razor with SA and got this problem that's driving me crazy... When I run SA on the trial spam mail by doing: spamassassin -tD < sample-spam.txt i get the following in the debug output and Razor isn't run: ... debug: entering helper-app run mode razor2 check skipped: No

Re: [SAtalk] spam funny

s being low redundancy, and highly random.. Pity I haven't a clue how to program that into a rule ;) Regards, Richard --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and

[SAtalk] Re: netscape and spamassassin

I have a solution to using SpamAssassin with Netscape on Linux. The mail reader in Netscape Communicator does not directly allow inserting a program to filter the email, as some other email readers do. I am using the following workaround. The basic concept is a two step process: -

Re: [SAtalk] Increasing bayes_msgcount and db

omewhere. Not a very satisfying answer, but at least it was answered. [sigh] I guess it's time to check out 2.60. - Richard --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval

[SAtalk] Increasing bayes_msgcount and db

massassin/local.cf is the proper place. Since the whitelist entries I put in that local.cf ARE working, it would appear that file is being read, but why aren't the bayes lines working? I would appreciate any enlightenment anyone can offer. Thanks very much. - Rich

RE: [SAtalk] Digest::SHA1 problems

I have the same problem trying to install on a RH 8.0 box. Havent found a solution yet though. Richard Humphrey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Thomas Kinghorn Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 4:06 AM To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes Error

Here is more information regarding the error I am getting on bayes. error is: Cannot open bayes_path /home/richard/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: Inappropriate ioctl for device I get this when running spamassassin -D --lint /home/richard/ drwx--8 richard richard 4096 Jul 8 07:33 richard

[SAtalk] Bayes Error

I posted this a week or so ago and didnt get much in the way of a response. Figured I would try again. I enabled bayes in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and when I run spamassassin -D --lint as any user, I get the following error: Cannot open bayes_path /home/richard/.spamassassin/bayes R/O

RE: [SAtalk] problem filtering all mail to single spam mailbox

How can I tell if what user procmail is running as? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Byrnand Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:40 PM To: Richard Humphrey; Spamassassin-List Subject: Re: [SAtalk] problem filtering all mail to single spam

[SAtalk] problem filtering all mail to single spam mailbox

ert.rhumphrey." procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/sharedspam.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/sharedspam" procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/sharedspam" procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/sharedspam" procmail: No matc

[SAtalk] Sitewide config

On a sitewide config, i am getting the following error when running spamassassin -D --lint. Cannot open bayes_path /home/sharedspam/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: Inappropriate ioctl for device Anyone know how to fix this? Richard Humphrey

RE: [SAtalk] Conflicting scores in SA/MailScanner

it use MailScanners configuration files. In other words, if I have custom rules, wherte should they be put so that they still work when MailScanner calls SA? Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Byrnand Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6

[SAtalk] Conflicting scores in SA/MailScanner

I just set up MailScanner to run w SA/Sendmail and obviuously something isnt configured correctly. Notice the 2 conflicting scores. I want Mailscanner to do virus scanning and let SA take care of the spam. I thought I had this set in the conf file but what did I miss? X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: spam

RE: [SAtalk] how much work to install and maintain

ats for my system, but keep in mind that I just recently (about 2 weeks ago) switched from running spamd out of procmail to letting MS call it. So the spam score is skewed. Also only myself and my 10 or so accounts are running SA so the results don't reflect the entire site.. Just my $.02 R

[SAtalk] RPMS

Will the 7.3 RPMS on Theo Van Dinters site work on RH 7.1? Richard Humphrey --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've

Re: [SAtalk] 2.53 vs 2.55

according to RFC 2822 Note the "1.2 -- RBL: Received via dialup, see http://mail-abuse.org/rbl+/"; which didn't appear in the first test run (although it should have). A "diff" between the output of the two runs

[SAtalk] Spamassassin/Fetchmail/Procmail

)? Would I do this through procmailrc? I know i can use POP on the linux box to check mail from my windows machine, but wondered if the other way was possible too. Richard Humphrey --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening

Re: [SAtalk] Can't get --add-to-blacklist working

On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 06:55 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: if you run spamassassin -D --add-to-blacklist < sample.mail What do you get? spamassassin --add-to-blacklist -D < ~/sample.mail debug: Score set 0 chosen. debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir debug: using "/

[SAtalk] Can't get --add-to-blacklist working

telist file with a 10 score, while whitelist entries have a -100 score. Suggestions appreciated. Richard Crane --- Haskins Laboratories / (203) 865-6163 X 275 / FAX (203) 865-8963 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now

[SAtalk] SpamAssin V2.50

Does this version interface w/Hotmail, and if so how? Pls advise. Without sacrifice and deprivation, there is no salvation, and I am just a sword cutting daisies...Tennessee Williams _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2

[SAtalk] Penalty score for a mail account?

give me a hint? Thanks in advance! Hope this is no RTFM... :) Regards -- Richard Körber -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkg

[SAtalk] cpan and manual test failures

md_maxchildren.ok32/33 Got SIGTERM, leaving cpan> Terminated make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 143 -- ------- Richard Knepper812-855-3456 Unix Syst

[SAtalk] '-W' not seeing site-wide auto-whitelist

: DB addr list: file locked, breaking lock. > It does the same thing for root (not tried any other users yet). Anyone see what I'm doing wrong ? Cheers, Richard. -- _ Richard A Frewin -- Starlink Si

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin and unconfirmed.dsbl.org

t and it appears that the delay is due to the X_RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL check (in the distributed 20_head_tests.cf). Setting... X_RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL 0 in my local.cf has got things back to what they should be. Richard Hopkins, Information Services, Computer Centre, University of Bristol,

[SAtalk] Upgrade Question

need to copy my rulesets over and remake my changes to the perl stuff. Is this correct...? Thanks ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Digital Network [EMAIL

[SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SA 2.20

your server set up, and maybe some of the phpsa.php to add additional things as I only allow white/black list changes and point value changes and nothing else. Cheers - hope this helps! ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Digital Ne

Re: [SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SpamAssassin

ssin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Digital Network [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SAtalk] Not getting Spam message in e-mail.

ion Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas - >http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink > > ___ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/list

Re: [SAtalk] Not getting Spam message in e-mail.

ssage. I'll look more closely at the rounding of the scores and see what the actuals are. Thanks On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:40:56 -0800 Pete Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06/10/2002 07:21, Richard J.Sears wrote: > >Hello Everyone, > > > >I have been run Spam

[SAtalk] Not getting Spam message in e-mail.

, however the rule sets showing what triggered the message as spam does not add up to the score identified in the header. Has anyone else seen this problem...? Many Thanks for the help! ** Richard J. Sears Vice President American Digital Network

RE: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

In the time frame from 4/2/02 00:00 hours and 4/11/02 23.59 hours I received the following 640 Tagged Spam Emails (all correct I may add) totaling 22.2Meg 539 emails from several email lists including this one, mailscanner and a couple others Totaling 14.3Meg 125 Other regular emails and spam n

[SAtalk] RE: Hi, I am the SpamAssassin maintainer--Lets see if the objections are legit.

our devices as to what is what you report to us. What do you say Paul, want to give it a crack? Contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would. Richard Ahlquist ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Reports not showing up

put it in their /home/usernamehere/.procmailrc This will provide the full functionality of both programs. Hope this helps! Richard - Original Message - From: "Stuart Luppescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 7:09 AM Subject

Re: [SAtalk] Conf.pm RFC

tion). The more people that benefit from my dev team's effort the better. I'd still be delighted to hear more alternatives/additions/criticisms for my proposed system. (on or off-list). Thanks to all for the comments and patches I've gotten so far. Richard Sonnen -- Richard

[SAtalk] alternate configs through spamc

g down the road. (Thanks to Greg Ward for the idea) Thanks, Richard -- Richard Sonnen | Front Range Internet, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.frii.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Programmer | 970-21

[SAtalk] Conf.pm RFC

If the general response is positive I'll be happy to implement the system and contribute it to the SpamAssassin project. Thanks! Richard Sonnen -- Richard Sonnen | Front Range Internet, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.fr